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  • ‘The costs could rise’: Austria manslaughter ruling could alter climbing in Europe

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  • Helicopter rescue is a few thousand euros - and unless you have an insurance for that you have to pay that by yourself.

    No idea if that was the case here - but it'd not be the first time that somebody refused rescue because of the cost.

    Don't go into the alps without experience - and make sure you have proper insurance. If you're a member of the Alpenverein (as I am) you'd be covered - but probably also gained enough experience to not get stuck in such an entirely avoidable situation anyway.

  • ‘The costs could rise’: Austria manslaughter ruling could alter climbing in Europe

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  • This is a quite important discussion - the last years have seen an increase of cases where people needed to be rescued from situations they should not have gotten themselves in.

    That includes school groups where teachers didn't bother to prepare, and people without experience following influencers route suggestions. I guess next step would be checking liability for those as well.

    Properly equipped with a bivy bag that situation might have been survivable.

  • It do be like that

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    Doorbell prankster that tormented residents of German apartments turns out to be a slug

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  • Unfortunately some of the humour got lost in translation. For "been brought down to size" the police used the phrase "zur Schnecke gemacht", which literally would translate to "made a slug".

  • Does It Make Sense To Upgrade A Prusa MK4S To A Core One?

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  • It depends a bit on your needs. I've upgraded mine mainly due to space concerns - it is quite a bit smaller than the mk4s with enclosure. As a positive side effect I can now print large PC models without warping - something that never worked properly even in an enclosed mk4s, probably due to the larger enclosure volume.

  • Mercedes CEO calls for ‘reality check’, slamming EU combustion engine ban

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  • Crazy part is that Mercedes makes pretty good EVs - unlike some of the other German manufacturers which struggled a bit, and even though they seem to have the main platform worked out by now still have shitty software. Mercedes software is usable and rock solid - which I didn't expect when we were buying one last year.

    In the area I'm living in here in Finland EV Mercedes seems to be the most popular choice currently - the number of EVs is rising very fast, with pretty much all brands present, but a clear majority is Mercedes.

  • The European Union is introducing new brake-pad regulations that reduce dust pollution by 27 percent

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  • Yes, but: Brake dust is significantly more likely to become airborne than tire dust, and is significantly more toxic than tire dust - and might be the most toxic thing your car is spreading.

  • Hot take: 3D printing toys kinda sucks

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  • Like always in 3D printing you need to understand if something is worth printing. There are enough toys that work as 3D print, and enough stuff that either will not survive the load, or not be played with (like those figurines). For those categories (especially the figurines) commercial ones might have the same fate, though, so just printing one to shut the child up may have smaller footprint/costs.

    A small list of toys that work very well 3D printed:

    This propeller pull toy last longer than the commercial ones with pull string.

    This stomp rocket also works great, and if the kids listen to instructions will last ages.

    This kind of logic game has similar durability than commercial ones.

    This kind of balloon toy also is pretty nice - we used to build those from wood when I was small, but 3D-printing here offers quite a bit more options for experimentation together with the kids. (The author has different models in his profile)

    From that there's pretty much a direct line to 3D printed RC models, where the main problem is that many are in the classic model builder mindset where you have to live with the parts you can buy, and due to that end up with a BOM containing dozens of different screw types. This one is an easy to build example not making that mistake, and there are some others as well.

  • Microsoft can't protect French data from US government access

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  • It's the legal situation in the US - and the reason why people familiar with the topic have been upset about the EU data sharing exemptions and similar stuff for over a decade now. It's also really frustrating to keep explaining customers that the way they're planning to use cloud stuff violates local data protection laws (even before GDPR), only for them to ignore it and do it anyway. We need way better education for people in charge of that kind of projects - and way higher penalties for violations, including the ability to fine organizations before they lose data when they store protected data in a way US government can get access to.

    The only way a Microsoft cloud (or any cloud service from a US company) in the EU can work is if that company doesn't have access to the European systems - both on hardware level and system level.

    Microsoft attempted to do just that by having a German cloud managed by T-Systems - but gave up on that already years ago

  • The Invisible Risks of Insecure Chinese Surveillance Cameras

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  • Not really a new thing - searching for and playing with security cameras has been light entertainment for about two decades now.

    For an equally long period it has been clear that if you connect an IP camera or similar device you're a pretty big moron if you don't isolate it from both your internal network and the internet, and only provide controlled access - no matter the manufacturer, non-Chinese ones are not really better in how horrible their software is. Unfortunately most large IT systems are run by absolute morons.

  • ECB launches design contest for future euro banknotes

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  • Seems pretty much all current AI models are not familiar with the works of Tom of Finland. Took a lot of kicking to get even remotely close to what I wanted.

  • Most people in France, Germany, Italy and Spain would support UK rejoining EU, poll finds

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  • Just like the UK exemptions most of those were given to early members as rules changed to get them to agree to the rule changes.

    New members don't get that - and UK would be treated like a new member.

  • shortcut

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  • Well, one thing is that I have significantly less tabs than I had bookmarks. My bookmarks where somewhere high in the 5-figure range, maybe even 6 figure.

    My heaviest used system has less than 10k tabs open.

    It's not ideal, but the tab trees in treestyle tabs mean I usually can just scroll a short bit and click to find what I need.

    Ideal would be a fully external bookmark manager - but browsers don't have APIs for that, so you'd have to end up writing an extension just to talk to your external management solution, and since they gimped the firefox plugin system about a decade ago you don't really have any useful APIs for doing that. (I'm current maintainer of the emacs keybindings extension for firefox, it's a hot mess to get a fraction of the functionality that was possible with the old extension system working. No idea why they don't offer the ability to do custom keybindings)

  • shortcut

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  • I haven't really used bookmarks for probably close to two decades, for various reasons.

    Keeping them synchronized always was a pain, and that was before you got into multiple browsers. That part at least is better now.

    Then the interfaces to manage them sucked - I did try a bit back then to manage them externally, but the storage formats also were stupid.

    And then I seemed to have reached the number of bookmarks the browsers no longer were able to handle (presumably due to the shitty way they were storing them), and adding or editing bookmarks always included several seconds between clicks to wait for the browser to react.

    Pretty much everything apart from the first point is still true for the built in bookmark managers.

  • shortcut

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  • treestyle tabs helps a lot with tab organization. Reasonably amount of tabs can't really be managed with the default tab interface of any browser (haven't tried the recently added native vertical tabs yet - they also added in tab groups, which I was heavily relying on before they ripped it out a bit over a decade ago. Not sure if I'll find back to my old workflow after all that time, though)

  • the walking shareware

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  • It's one of the cases where I actually ended up buying the extra levels back then.

  • Abandoning EU's 2035 zero-emission car target would risk 1 million jobs, study says

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  • China is currently building coal power plants to replace old, less efficient and dirtier plants. Then they use them for base load / network stabilization while they build up ridiculous amounts of energy storage. They're not running all the time, only to compensate variability in renewables power generation while they build up storage. They'll probably be taken out of use in a few decades without having much runtime.

    For installed capacity the new power plants don't change much as they take old ones offline - percentage wise coal is falling due to the ridiculous speed of building renewables.

  • Insectrapellant

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  • The image link is not broken as such, but I seem to be hitting this bug. I'll look into updating and/or backporting that tonight.

  • AI Generated Images @sh.itjust.works
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    Insectrapellant

  • Emacs @lemmy.ml
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    Letting LLMs search my bbdb, and compose emails

  • Tired of spaghetti? How about ramen?

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  • Yeah, Prusa Mini and (back then) mk3s with PrusaSlicer

  • AI Generated Images @sh.itjust.works
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    Miniontaur

  • 3DPrinting @lemmy.world
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    Prusa slicer 2.8 UI changes

  • AI Generated Images @sh.itjust.works
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    A futuristic city

  • Everyday Carry. What essentials do you carry on a daily basis? @sopuli.xyz
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    IT security EDC bag

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
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    What's a skill that's taken for granted where you live, but is often missing in people moving there from abroad?